Bonehead

By Zamboni

We cats are very fond of our nicknames for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney: The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived, and The Worst Person Who's Ever Lived (If Indeed He Were a Person).

In fact, we think that those names have been endorsed by New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who today penned this memorable paragraph: "The last century was the American century. But this one will not be, thanks to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who...spent eight years and trillions of dollars either barging into stuff they should have left alone or leaving alone stuff they should have intervened on."

If that's not a definition of "worst," what is?

Well, to answer that, let's travel down Pennsylvania Avenue to Capitol Hill. John Boehner, take a bow as the Worst Speaker of the House — Ever, Ever, In History, Amen.

Boehner has stumbled so much since accepting the gavel from Nancy Pelosi that his oopsies and goof-ups have become standard punch lines in the blogosphere. But this debt ceiling fiasco just takes the cake.

On top of all the idiocies and outrages, last night the hapless House GOP had to postpone a vote on a Boehner-crafted debt bill that the Congressional Budget Office said would not save the money he said it would. Today, the CBO says Harry Reid's plan will save more. And Republican infighting has reached new heights as Republican Study Group staffers were caught urging outside right-wing-nutjob groups to pressure House members against Boehner's legislation.

This is not a political party that has its house — or its House — in order.

"Fire him," Congress members reportedly chanted against the RSC e-mailer. We cats think that perhaps John Boehner might be a candidate for that as well.

Normally we'd delight in Boehner's incompetence. But it's tough to do so when the whole country, and the entire world, may end up suffering grievously because of it. So we cats HISS instead. "Get your asses in line," the Speaker has allegedly barked at his caucus — but without a doubt, he is the Chief Ass.

UPDATE: It's Thursday, and the House vote has been postponed... AGAIN! We stand by our headline. And yes, the picture.